Little Boy

World War II
    The “Little Boy” was created through the Manhattan Project when Albert Einstein suggested to President Roosevelt that they create a atomic bomb. With the President’s permission, Einstein worked with Robert Oppenheimer, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls, Felix Bloch, Niels Bohr, Emilio Segre, James Franck, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs and Edward Teller to create the bomb. Before testing “the Gadget” in New Mexico, scientists were unsure whether the bomb would fail to detonate or if it would work too well and destroy the planet. However when the bomb was tested, it succeeded their expectations. The bomb shot up 360 feet per second and a cloud of radioactive vapor materialized at 30,000 feet. Even a blind girl 120 miles away noticed the flash. Another bomb was then made, and used to destroy Hiroshima.

Monologue from the Perspective of an Inventor of the Atomic Bomb:
    This bomb, this one bomb defines the war. It will either end it, or we will die trying. I’ve put most of my life into the Manhattan project and I swear it will work! Everybody’s looking up to me -- my friends, my family -- so it has to work! But there’s still so many factors we have to account for. The plane dropping it from such a high altitude, the wind, the landscape! All it has to do, it’s one job, is to end this damn war.